Fifty years ago, the Murray family lost their prized possession: a fifteenth-century, two-volume Gutenberg Bible--the most valuable books in the world--to the rival Stone family, in dubious and disputed circumstances. Fifty years later, grandson, Johnny Murray, discovers where his legacy now lies. Drunk on the heady aroma of vengeance, blended with the prospect of a multi-million-pound payday, Johnny resolves to retrieve it, no matter what.But Johnny's actions ripple down through his family when ex-custodian of the bibles, Lewis Stone, retaliates. Not only Johnny, but also his wife and son, become targets as Stone escalates his response from malice to mayhem and murder in his attempts to recover the books and establish his own legal title to them. But whoever wins has a problem. Have they been seized from the rightful owner? If so, can he risk the law ever taking the side of a thief or a murderer?
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